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" The emphasis on voting for Democrats disturbed me. This movement could easily be co-opted by the neoliberal core of the Democratic Party power establishment–and people who can’t imagine anything nicer than Joe Biden in the White House " I find that statement rather odd. I perceived the event as a Democratic-party-aligned movement from the start, so I don't think it counts as "co-optation". Just consider how much more difficult it was to mobilize such large crowds, celebrity endorsements, or positive media coverage for similarly-sized antiwar marches or even the Black Lives Matter movement (which often involved similar issues, such as the use of a gun by a paranoid right-wing rent-a-cop who stalked and killed Trayvon Martin). From the beginning it was effectively unlatched from issues of race, internationalism, or class. All of those things suggest that it is designed to be a single-issue initiative for a highly partisan (as in party-related) issue. So even if there are people who support gun control that are not linked to the Democratic Party apparatus, it doesn't seem like they were the ones leading this event. My $0.02. Amith R. Gupta _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
